Not to indulge DH in his Doom-ageddon plan (possibly zombie and snow related)

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DH is convinced Doom-ageddon could strike at any moment. With zero notice. When pressed he has been unspecific about exactly what this might entail, heavy snowfall, the failing of the financial markets, zombies, alien invasion, not getting a bonus this year etc

However he is adamant we are ill-prepared for this.

We have a freezer full of food, a wood burner, lots of logs in the garage, a snow shovel, a sledge, lots of stairs (is it daleks or zombies that can't climb stairs?) For looting purposes, we are two mins from a massive Tesco and could def get there quicker than our octogenarian neighbours.

I concede we do not have much tinned food, and no bottled water. However I suspect DH does not want to buy a lot of soup quite as much as he wants an oil powered generator and an axe.

AIBU just to ignore him?

He needs to watch the 'prepare and survive' video the government made in case of nuclear war...it's scary stuff but the key points were having plenty of buckets (for your waste), painting the window panes, and boarding everything up. All pointless of course, it would be either die in the blast or die 3 weeks later from radiation poisoning.
If the worst happens, I plan to fill the bath up with water while we still have some, barricade ourselves in the kitchen with plenty of blankets, and drink all of the whisky/champagne/gin. Would possibly send DH out to raid the corner shop for chocolate supplies.

I actually have FB friends (including cousins) who believe that 'we are in the end times as stated in the book of Revelations...'

Umm, yes right.

(But i do keep the cat's travel basket upstairs just in case. I won't be relying on her to catch food though. After 5 years of failure she still thinks that looking at birds & opening her mouth is the best method).

Chandon - thanks i feel very cheerful now... don't forget everyone, there have been religious wars for centuries; & humans existed for milennia with antibiotics!

Doh - withOUT antibiotics i meant.

by the way - if you see a group of Zombies just go out with a hangover & no make-up; they will accept you as one of them :)

Phew, and here was me thinking it was just DP - Who keeps a large sort of comfort rucksack full of Ray Mearsish survivalist stuff next to the gun cabinet so it's hady to grab come the End Of Days - Although if we all have to live on his stash of tinned beans the fumes will have done for us all within a week!

Latara. great plan, I am still recovering from a big night (don't bounce back as quickly as I used to) and can definitely pass for zombie!!

...I don't think lack of water will ever be a problem in Britain (stares gloomily out of window)

I'll be raiding ds's Army gear. he has a really cool respirator and a bio hazard suit.

Oh wait. I'd quite like him to survive to....

I am so of all you people who are so much more prepared than we are!
Robert Heinlein wrote a long essay about this, years ago - I must look up the exact title, there's a copy of it in a couple of the anthologies of his work that were published after he died. He was in america obviosuly, so guns are much more readily available and "everyone" can learn to shoot, but he gets right into it and thinks of all sorts of thing that would never occur ordinarily.
I want a rainwater barrell/tank! and a woodburner.
The "apocalypse scenario" that scares me the most is the peak oil one - Alex Scarrow used it for his Last Light and the sequel, and a lot of his info is really well researched and based in fact - the reports and things are all readuly available. scares self and heads to asda for some more rice and beans

Build him an underground bunker and stock it well. Then stage a Doomageddon attack (whistles, klaxons, sombre music on the radio), bustle him into the bunker, lock the door and say you're very sorry but you can't join him because you fear you are contaminated.... You skip off to the beach. He's happy because he was right all along. Win-win

My doom-ageddon plan is to lock and barricade all the doors downstairs, fire up the grill for a few steaks, pour myself a large vodka and chill.

I have just realised that we have the ideal zombie/looter/whatever defence: our dog has been farting all morning and it absolutely stinks. Nobody would dare to come near our rain water tank [smug], wood stoves (and big log pile) [smugger], chain saws [smuggest] or egg-laying chicken [bursting with smugness].

I'm pregnant with triplets mwahahahahahahahah

I don't know about zombies, but while Daleks can't CLIMB stairs, they can just float over them to get up a level.

Tell him to sort out a BOB (BugOut Bag) and that will keep him busy googling US websites and then freaking out sufficviently for a while !!!

DH has just texted me to say he is very glad HINBU

, DH

He's just being manly. Tell him you want a perimeter trench dug around the edge of the back garden to trap zombies and looters, and give him a spade and let him go to it. He'll be happy as larry for days.

I need to stock up on beans and bottled water - I didn't realise the situation was so serious :o

Oh a thread right up my street. I revise my Armageddon plan every so often esp when we move house. My DH is like the OP a thinks it's a bit daft but equally doesn't stand in my way.

I've read a few survival books, I don't worry about peak oil to much as after awhile society will correct itself and mainly because taking a deep look a Cuba it became very cut off yet it survived and feeds its self by producing its own food.
I worry more about serious plague like illness sweeping the world or major environmental changes.

So my survival plan is a mix of already done list and skills to learn.

1. Is location: we've actually gone backwards on this we used to live in a small village surrounded by farms with a very strong community.

Now we live in town, but plan to be more remote soon. As the worst areas to being with are always town and cites.

1. Have long life food supply and water. Even when tinned food it past it's date we keep them anyway. Althought we have plenty of water in the uk I wouldnt be to sure of getting access the government and the very very wealthy will probably have security guarding it.

I also seed save and grow my own food.

1. Being armed: I'm useless in this part due to being a wimp. DH on the other did a lot of fencing ( we don't have a sword..yet) and has proper hunting knifes.

He his brothers and his dad all know how to handle guns and riffles, non of them currently have one but FIL is thinking about getting a shot gun. DH and his brothers are worried about having one in the house with children. But if the time came they would try and find a way to get them.

I doubt cars would be of any use. We are all good walkers, but we have bikes too. Thinking we should also do some horse riding as such they might be better at getting past any obstacles.

Leave him to it and ask him not to worry the kids. My dad was like this and it is a bit disconcerting to pick up on when you're wee - better to feel safe. Obviously good to have stuff in the house in case of power cut/ flood but as others have pointed out, a stockpile will only make you a target. My only plan now is to pack sandwiches and warm clothes and head in the opposite direction from the govt official rescue shelter! (remember the Superdome? Ugh)

Ah but the UK hasn't been self sufficient in food for quite a while now, and if you think of somewhere like London with 7million or so people in it - the supermarkets operate on a JIT (just in time) system for their stock, the lorries arrive all the time, every day, and actual stock to hand is low at any time. One small run on the shelves and that's it, gone. If no more arrives... It's not the aftermath, it's the first year or so Eventually hopefully things would settle down and people would be ok, but the population would be severely reduced.
Whereas with a plague, if you're not immune, there's nothing you can do anyway, but if you are, and stay safe while it runs its course, then you have all the infrastructure and "stuff" just lying around to be picked up, and hardly anyone to have to share it/fight over it with.
(You can tell I spend too much time thinking about this stuff can't you? )

DP was very offhand about me throwing out his collection of outdated Fray Bentos Steak pies. Apparently I will regret this when the chips are down. Or at least no longer available. Still, he is cheered to know that he still has his MA thesis in the loft and presumably reading this out loud to any alien invaders will kill them with sheer boredom.

I am more practically prepared since I do have an axe, several spades in which to smash zombie brains out with and (but, and tell nobody, OK?) rather a lot of things that go bang and can be fused up to provide a diversion. There's also a water butt and next door's chickens who will meet an early fate.

My mother's method of readiness for Armageddon was to hoard sugar. This struck me as a less than efficient plan but she assured me that she'd lived through The War and "knew about these things".

DALEKS CAN FLOAT OVER STAIRS?????

This thread is brilliant. I feel positively, massively underprepared.

Those Fray Bentos pies are manky when they aren't cooked in an oven! Why not just let him hoard the tins of meat and potatoes

(Casually closes kitchen door to hide the two languishing experimental Fray Bentos pies on the bench that are probably out of date from being there that long waiting to be experimented on...)